Oro

Lazy evenings and good food in Saarbrücken. Doesn't hurt to have a close EURO 2008 game going on.

At Oro, I recommend:

• Kokos-Zitronengrassuppe
• Coconut Jumbo Prawns
• Gnocchi in Ricottacreme
• Geröstetes Knoblauchbrot
• Breadpudding mit Baileys und Vanilleeis

IUIs

Spent last week in a meet hosted at the DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence), University of Saarland. Caught a glimpse of a lot of interesting research at the center.

In particular, the Intelligent User Interfaces projects had some neat multi-modal technology demos.

f(n) = f(n-1) + f(n-2)

Golden ratios and Fibonacci spirals or not, those numbers make art.



As seen at the MoMA.

A unifying programming model

The Collage programming model was recently featured as an alphaWorks technology. Important aspects of the associated declarative language are geared towards simplification, evolution, composition, distribution and device adaptation. It is based on a uniform, end-to-end, RDF data model and a cascade-oriented, data-driven execution model.

The introductory download consists of:

• the programming model interpreter
• the Collage programming model Overview document (PDF), and
• a live executable tutorial (complete code samples that can be run in-place while viewing the tutorial)

And it is available here:

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/collage

A memorial hike

Memorial Day '08.

Four times a charm plus one

The fourth Working Draft of State Chart XML is out.

Quoting the status section of the document:

"The main differences from the previous draft are:

• the modularization of the language


• the introduction of profiles and


• a revision of the algorithm for document interpretation."

Tourist in Holland

Canals, windmills and tulips ofcourse.